Standards Software Architecture Lecture 26

What are standards?
 Definition: a standard is a form of agreement between parties
 Many kinds of standards
 For notations, tools, processes, organizations,
domains
 There is a prevalent view that complying to standard ‘X’ ensures that a constructed system has high quality
 This is almost never strictly true
 But that doesn’t mean standards are worthless!
 Here, we will attempt to put standards in perspective